With fall weather turning crisp -- at least in the northern
hemisphere – it's time to do something you really like, to reward
yourself. Watch the World Series, take the dog for a walk, tailgate before
the football game, pick up some fresh apples (or green chile) before they're
all gone. We did something we really like and put out two spanking new
official releases, SecureFX® 4.0 and SecureCRT® 5.2. So we hope
you'll reward us and yourself by trying them. We have other enticing news
to fit a variety of tastes, from the piquant upcoming VShell® release
to some "comfort food" information on forum activity and web
news on products and security. Dig in!

More seamless HTTP proxy support is one of the new features that has
been praised by beta customers in the SecureCRT 5.2 and SecureFX 4.0 applications.
If someone is your proxy it means they represent you, that they serve
in your capacity. Network proxy servers inhabit a similar position of
power and trust, and we worked hard to "play nicely" with them.
You can now use basic and unauthenticated HTTP proxies, which simplifies
proxy setup.

Playing nicely is all well and good, but for some the real excitement
comes from getting work done more easily, faster. For you, we have a slew
of ways to get more done with tabs: launching new tabs from the command-line,
scripting tabs, and switching tabs.

For more information on SecureCRT 5.2, visit the product section today,
or just jump in and download your copy.

Are you using just one of the client applications?
We have a special offer for you: until October 31, you can upgrade to
a bundle and save $30.00 over the price to upgrade each
product separately.

The SecureCRT + SecureFX bundle gives you integrated
Secure Shell client and file transfer applications, making everyday
use and maintenance easier. Define your options once and
they're available in both applications. Both SecureCRT and SecureFX
sessions are displayed on the Activator menu.

SecureFX 4.0 is now available in official release, giving you two major
options for secure file transfer: SFTP with Secure Shell and FTP over
SSL (TLS). Now you can move files securely even when the remote machine
only supports SSL, or when the firewall doesn't allow Secure Shell connections.

But that's not all. You can now queue up files to be transferred, preventing
errors if the remote FTP server doesn't allow multiple connections. You
can also move files more easily in both SecureFX and the SFXCL command-line
utility.

In the making-your-life-easier category (especially if you're an admin)
SecureFX 4.0 shares two new capabilities with SecureCRT 5.2: enhanced
support for X.509 host keys, and simplified HTTP proxy setup with support
for unauthenticated and basic proxies.

VanDyke Software is looking for VShell users who are interested in testing
an upcoming release which will enhance the triggers capability. The new
triggers will provide more ability to script responses to SFTP activities
on your system, and automate additional file activities.

Some of the triggers we would like people to test are: File renamed,
File deleted, Folder created, Folder renamed, Folder deleted, Login, and
Logout.

The new file triggers can allow you to use scripts to set up a mirror
of a local structure on a machine that you don't want to give direct user
access. Login/logout triggers let you log file activities, or you can
move files to make them available to a user or groups of users; then perform
cleanup and logout.

To participate in the pre-beta testing of the new VShell softare, please
contact Robert Stehwien at
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4. Heard On The Forums: Paste to Keymap
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Forum user dan d jones asks, "How do I include a command to paste
whatever's in the clipboard in a keymap? I'd like to map Control-T to
'telnet [PASTE] \n'."

The \v command pastes the current clipboard contents to the active session
window. So in Mr. jones's case, he would send "telnet \v\n".

In October the ServerWatch web site reprinted a review of the VShell
2.6 server by Aaron Weiss that first appeared in "DataMation".
This top-level overview may be useful if you are putting together a proposal
to add VShell to your systems.

A member of the security-basics@securityfocus.com mailing list recently
asked for help with online infosec news resources. Here are some of the
sites mentioned. Do you have other favorites? Send them to us at
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7. New And Current Releases
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Official releases of the SecureCRT 5.2 and SecureFX 4.0 applications
were made on October 10, 2006. They feature SSL support, a variety of
tab enhancements for SecureCRT, and have two configuration enhancements
in common: improved X.509 host key checking and HTTP proxy support.

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